Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1935, Page 14

US.GASFATALITIES ESTIMATEDATT 421 Chemical Warfare Service Says Mustard Gas Is I Still Most Effective. By the Associated Press. Official War Department figures show that 1,221 United States soldiers died In hospitals as a result of gas poisoning during the World War. In addition, it was estimated yes- terday that 200 died on the battle- flelds as the result of gas. This was made known in connec- tion with publication of an official handbook by the British government glving data on the poison gas situa- tion, A recent issue of the chemical ‘warfare bulletin, issued by the Army's Chemical Warfare Service, contains an analysis of published reports con- cerning the death-dealing effects of poisonous gases, in which many al- leged discoveries of new war gases are described as “obviously absurd” or “grossly exaggerated.” It said that “although many com-| pounds have been tested as possible chemical warfare agents in laborato- ries throughout the world, since the ‘war, it is significant that practically all claims for the discovery of new | and super-powerful agents, when in- vestigated, are found to have ema- nated from the imaginative brain of some modern Jules Verne.” “Of the many claims investigated,” it was said, “not a single one has so far led to the discovery of a practi- cal new agent. As a consequence of rigid technical requirements only| about 3,000 of the innumerable chem- | ical substances known to science were considered during the war as possible chemical warfare agents. “Of these less than 25 were actually | used on the field and only five or six| survived at the,end of the war as| effective military agents.” Mustard gas, introduced by the Germans during the World War, was | said to be “still the most effective chemical war agent known.” DEMOCRATS DENY SPLIT Maine Leader Says Rumors Are G. 0. P. Propaganda. SCARBORO, Me, August 17 (#).— F. Harold Dubord, Democratic na- tional committeeman for Maine, to- day described rumors of dissension in the Democratic ranks in Maine as “Republican propaganda.” “All of the alleged trouble exists only in the minds of our enemies who would like to create dissension in our ranks,” Dubord said in a speech for delivery before a Cumberland County Democratic party outing. Dubord, who was defeated by United States Senator Hale, Republican, in the last election, said he “would like to advise the grand old party” | that 1t could look for unity in the | Democratic ranks in 1936. WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT COMPANY Laura Morena. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. First Babies Cheer Alaskan Colonists Pioneer Happy and Preparing for Winter, Says Report to P. W. A. Headquarters. The first two babies born in the Alaskan coleny in the Valley of Matanuska with their mothers. Mrs. Gertrude Larsh, with her baby boy, Monty Meivin, Left, Right, Mrs, Howard Van Wormer and her baby girl, BY JOHN JAY DALY, [14 OW we're getting some- where,” remarked Morton Milford, right-hand man to Harry Hopkins, public works administrator, as a courier brought in photographs of the first two babies born to colonists in the Matamuska Valley, Alaska. Milford—a family man himself, and father of Arthur Lee Milford, cham- pion 7-year-old base ball player of | Chevy Chase—went into action as soon as he heard the good news from Alaska and ordered official photo- graphs of the new-born babies. These pictures arrived in Washington late | yesterday and are given first pubhca- tion today in The Star. Further, Milford had the satisfac- tion of hearing last night a first-hand story of the Alaskan colony told by | David R. Williams of this city, who brought the pictures of the babies back with him from Alaska. As chief of the engineering branch of Rural Habilitation Division, Public Works, Wililams went to Alaska to make a special report for President Roosevelt on complaints voiced by the colonists. Difficulties Overcome. “All major difficulties,” Williams told Milford, “have been ironed out. The colonists are happy and exerting | every effort to develop a successful | | farming community. The new-! born\ bables are playing no small part in | | getting the gang together—showing | the influence of babyhood. “Colonists trekked to the doors of the huts where the babies were born— | to see the first American colonists who | entered the world in Alaska. | “The proposition now is to have everything airtight before the real | Winter sets in—in the North Country.” To make sure that no colonist will be without Winter quarters, arrange- | olic priest assigned to the valley by | ments have been made with the Ter- or RECONDITIONED DEMONSTRATED AND (Official photos, Public Works Administration.) '? rltorinl government to take over sur- plus supplies at Anchorage, Seward | and Palmer in the event the home- building construction falls down. With 61 houses now actually occupied, 114 more are to be built before Novem- ber 1. With three months’ experience be- hind them, the colonists have weeded from their ranks all who could not stand the rigors of life in a newly founded community. At present, there | are 175 determined families in the valley. Working with more than 400 transients, the heads of these fam- | ilies have cleared the land, dug wells, sawed timber and erected their lomes—or are building them. Priest is Assigned. Father F. Merrill Sulzman, a Cath- Bishop Crimont of Alaska, has done yoemanry work among the new- comers, according to reports filed with Milford. The priest reports that the great majority now in the colony “are perfectly satisfied with the project. Like true pioneers, they are accept- ing conditions courageously, with a determination to succeed in spite of watches — diamonds — gold 4, discarded leweiry. 50 old” gold and ASH. difficulties. These people are sincere, brave and industrious.” While the colonists have set up their own fire department and a new colonial police force—with the priest as fire warden—the main objects in camp that occupy the attention of all hands are the babies. They are the proud possessions of Mrs. Gertrude Larsh, who presented the colonists with the first boy, an 8-pounder named Monty Melvin, and of Mrs. Howard Van Wormer, whose baby, Laura Morena, was the first girl born in the colony. She weighed 6% | pounds at birth. The attendant phy- sician was Dr. Earl Ostrom, the nurse Miss Madeleine de Fora. Already there is a romantic spec: C., AUGUST 18, lation about these two bables—a boy and & girl—born within & week of each other. The question is, ~ill they grow up together and marry? Already, the poet of the Public Works Administration, Charles Banks Forbes, has flipped off a fillip, part of which follows: “These are the babes of the Yukon, the first who were born on the plain, In the valley of old Matamuska, in the land of the snow and the rain, Where strong men are needed to con- quer, where women are nobler by far For giving up dreams of the softies and looking on things as they are. Here is a race in the making, Ameri- cans all the way through, And here are the joys in the taking of work for the willing to do— So here’s to the babes of the Yukon, the boy and the girl of the North; May they live long in old Matamuska, {:ghm love, and go pledging their —_— RUNAWAY GIRL SAFE PITTSBURGH, August 17 (#).—An accomplished 14-year-old tap dancer who tired of her prosaic life in the quiet little town of Perryopolis and ran away 36 days ago was found ex- hausted today wandering in a north- side street. Taken to the juvenile detention home, Wanda Phillips, the girl, ‘told authorities she hadn't eaten or slept for three days. She sent word to her parents, who operate a hotel, that she had gone away with a Pittsburgh man July 12. “The mother lost 40 pounds worrying. VOLCANO TRAPS GROUP MOSCOW, August 17 () .—Seven geologists, exploring for the first time the crater of Kliutcheff Volcano in the Kanchatka Peninsula, barely escaped | with their lives when the crater sud-| denly filled with smoke and sulphur | gas, dispatches reported today. The expedition, sent by the Acad- emy of Science, was hauled to the top of the crater with most of its mem- bers in a semi-asphyxiated condition. Kliutcheff is 15,750 feet high. JEAN ABBEY The Woman's Home Companion Radio Shopper WILL BROQADCAST interesting news of LANSBURGH'S Over STATION WJSV 9:15 A.M. Monday 924 RANGES REFRIGERATORS A grand opportunity to revitalize your kitchen with the range or refrigerator you have always wanted — All appliances are in perfect condition, reduced far below reguiar selling prices. The Gas Refrigerator is the famous refrig- at a big saving! 1935—PART ONE ————————————————————————————————————— LEMKE BILL DUE 10BE CONSIDERED Riots Spur Congress to Actiom on Farm Mort- gage Plan. By the Assoclated Press. Foreclosure riots in Missouri spurred Congress yesterday toward considera- tion of the Frazier-Lemke bill to re- place the farm mortgage moratorium held unconstitutional last May. “That's just the beginning,” warned Representative Lemke, Republican, of North Dakota. “Unless Congress acts before adjournment, there will be dis- turbances that this country has never experienced. “Self-preservation is-the first law of nature, and whenever we put 2,- 000,000 families into misery, trouble must be expected, much as we re- gret it.” The bill, approved by Senate and House Judiciary Committees, as meet- ing Supreme Court objections to the former law, will be taken up tomor- row by the Senate. Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho and others ex- pressed confidence it would meet speedy approval. House Fate Uncertain. Its fate in the House, however, was | uncertain. Speaker Byrns said if the Senate’s action was favorable, there is a “possibility” the House will call | it up under a special rule. Lemke predicted there “won't be more than & handful of votes against it.” | The North Dakotan said the mort- gage situation is becoming worse be- | | cause an increase in land values and | the price of farm products have | prompted mortgage holders to try “to grab off the land.” | The pending measure, Lemke ex- Special Value! Kitchen Cabmets 162 i ‘Well Made of Soft Pine These cabi- match your egl- F Sheme. “The price 18 special for this very fine cabinet. See the model on our floor. Never a Charge for Delivery. Lumber & Millwork 2121 Ga. Ave. NOrth 1341 _ plained, would enable a farmer dis- satisfled with conciliation proceedings to file in bankruptcy. The court then could permit him to retain possession of his property for a period up to three years by paying a “reasonable rental, fixed annually by the court.” This would pay taxes and insurance, and any surplus would go to creditors. Al the end of the three years, or at any i'me before, the farmer would be permivted to reacquire his property by paying its appraised value. But & creditor dissatisfied with the appraisal could. seek reappraisal, or demand that the property be sold at auction, with secured creditors permitted to bid up to the appraised value or the principal that the property secures, “which- ever is higher.” The debtor would be given 90 days in which to redeem the property from such sale. The outlawed measure pfovided a five-year moratorium, and made no provision for the auction sale, pre- venting, as Justice Brandeis said from the bench, a creditor from taking over the property in lieu of payment of the mortgage. Lemke emphasized that he does not consider the bill a substitute for his measure providing $3,000,000,000 in new currency to refinance farm mort- gages. - $350,000,000 for Advertising. British firms are spending $350,000,- 000 in advertising this year. WILL SPEND $1,000,000. SEATTLE, August 17 (#).—Presi- dent W. A. Patterson of United Aire lines has authorized a $1,000,000 im- provement and conversion p: which will give its 55 lwin—engimd transport planes a high speed of 203 miles an hour and a cruising speed of 189 miles an hcur, R. F. Ahrens, district trafic manager, announced today. Included in the expenditure will be the parchase of 130 supercharg -4 850-horsepower engines with control- lable-pitch propellors. Crash Victim Expires. SAVANNAH, Ga., August 17 (#).— A man listed on hospital records as Joe Bowers, Seminole Indian, died here today, after being picked up on a highway in nearby South Carolina with a crushed chest and fractured arms and legs. 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